On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and Walden [EasyRead Large Edition] - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425060803 ISBN 13: 9781425060800

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, 2007

Synopsis

Raising his voice against the mass slavery that ensued with the Industrial era, Thoreau has penned this brilliant work. Combining the wisdom of the antiquity with his own intellectual precept, he deals with the problems of the new age and comes up with universal solutions. He further expounds on the duty of every citizen to safeguard his rights and the benefit of the country.

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About the Author

American writer, essayist, philosopher, and Transcendentalist, Thoreau advocated the importance of individualism. His theories on various subjects proved highly influential. His writings showcase his keen observation as well as his talent as a stylist.

From AudioFile

Thoreau's famous book about two years in a Massachusetts cabin, while partly a nature study, is primarily about how to live and a critique of how most people go about it. Narrator Robin Field's expressiveness is excellent, his pacing fine, his understanding of the text clear. His reading of the famous, and still radical, essay on civil disobedience is direct and down-to-earth, keeping all Thoreau's good qualities. However, in his reading of WALDEN, his Thoreau sounds alternately self-righteous and whiny or pompously elevated and "poetic." Field intones, as if lecturing or preaching, in an affectedly rhetorical manner. It's true that Thoreau can be preachy and priggish, but in WALDEN, Field makes him seem so even when he isn't. W.M. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1425060803
• ISBN 13: 9781425060800
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 428